Azure Job Trends in the East of England

Microsoft Azure
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Azure skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 5 10
Rank change year-on-year 0 +5 +6
Permanent jobs citing Azure 711 510 433
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 9.67% 14.71% 9.16%
As % of the Cloud Services category 49.34% 52.42% 41.28%
Number of salaries quoted 452 387 344
10th Percentile £25,150 £26,250 £30,750
25th Percentile £33,750 £31,250 £38,302
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £61,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £70,000 £75,875
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% - -4.76%

All Cloud Computing Skills
East of England

Azure falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in the East of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,441 973 1,049
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 19.59% 28.07% 22.18%
Number of salaries quoted 943 708 777
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,250 £26,750
25th Percentile £33,000 £31,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £61,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £76,625 £78,750
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% - -7.69%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Azure relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Azure job vacancy trend in the East of England

Azure
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Azure.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Azure

Azure
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure in the East of England over the 6 months to 19 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Azure in the East of England

Azure
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the East of England region over the 6 months to 19 August 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Hertfordshire -2 197 £60,000 +9.09% 70
Essex 0 171 £40,000 +14.29% 44
Cambridgeshire -5 142 £53,000 +47.22% 72
Suffolk +26 95 £48,370 -3.26% 13
Norfolk +3 77 £55,000 +26.44% 24
Bedfordshire -16 27 £37,500 -22.68% 22
Azure
England

Azure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 106 (14.91%) SharePoint
2 54 (7.59%) Microsoft Exchange
3 15 (2.11%) WordPress
4 8 (1.13%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (0.84%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.56%) CMS
7 3 (0.42%) IIS
7 3 (0.42%) SAS
8 2 (0.28%) Confluence
8 2 (0.28%) Luigi
9 1 (0.14%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.14%) Umbraco
Applications
1 59 (8.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (1.83%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (0.84%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.14%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.14%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (0.84%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.56%) Dynamics AX
3 3 (0.42%) Dynamics GP
4 2 (0.28%) Infor M3
4 2 (0.28%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.28%) Towers Watson Igloo
5 1 (0.14%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 193 (27.14%) Microsoft 365
2 117 (16.46%) Entra ID
3 110 (15.47%) Power Platform
4 102 (14.35%) Azure AI
5 83 (11.67%) AWS
6 81 (11.39%) Azure DevOps
7 57 (8.02%) OneDrive
8 39 (5.49%) PowerApps
9 35 (4.92%) Power Automate
10 32 (4.50%) Azure Logic Apps
10 32 (4.50%) GitHub
11 28 (3.94%) Azure Data Factory
12 25 (3.52%) GCP
13 20 (2.81%) Azure Service Bus
14 19 (2.67%) Adobe Creative Cloud
14 19 (2.67%) SaaS
15 18 (2.53%) GitHub Copilot
16 17 (2.39%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 15 (2.11%) Microsoft Copilot
18 14 (1.97%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 70 (9.85%) Firewall
2 59 (8.30%) DNS
3 50 (7.03%) VPN
4 43 (6.05%) DHCP
5 32 (4.50%) TCP/IP
6 16 (2.25%) Internet
7 13 (1.83%) WAN
7 13 (1.83%) Wireless
8 11 (1.55%) VoIP
9 10 (1.41%) MQTT
9 10 (1.41%) VLAN
10 9 (1.27%) LAN
11 8 (1.13%) Network Security
12 7 (0.98%) Broadband
13 5 (0.70%) Wi-Fi
14 4 (0.56%) Structured Cabling
15 3 (0.42%) DMZ
15 3 (0.42%) SSL
16 2 (0.28%) L2TP
16 2 (0.28%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 108 (15.19%) Azure SQL Database
2 95 (13.36%) Power BI
3 59 (8.30%) MongoDB
4 51 (7.17%) Tableau
5 34 (4.78%) SQL Server
6 30 (4.22%) Elasticsearch
7 13 (1.83%) Data Warehouse
8 11 (1.55%) Relational Database
9 10 (1.41%) Data Lake
10 7 (0.98%) Amazon Redshift
11 6 (0.84%) BigQuery
11 6 (0.84%) Looker
11 6 (0.84%) MySQL
11 6 (0.84%) Snowflake Schema
12 5 (0.70%) PostgreSQL
13 3 (0.42%) Metadata
13 3 (0.42%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 2 (0.28%) Amazon RDS
14 2 (0.28%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
14 2 (0.28%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 25 (3.52%) Git
2 12 (1.69%) JIRA
3 6 (0.84%) MLflow
4 4 (0.56%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.56%) Selenium
4 4 (0.56%) Visual Studio
5 3 (0.42%) Cypress.io
5 3 (0.42%) git-flow
5 3 (0.42%) Terragrunt
6 2 (0.28%) Yeoman
7 1 (0.14%) ERwin
7 1 (0.14%) JMeter
7 1 (0.14%) Postman
7 1 (0.14%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.14%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 342 (48.10%) Social Skills
2 74 (10.41%) Finance
3 33 (4.64%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (2.81%) Marketing
5 18 (2.53%) Law
6 15 (2.11%) Legal
7 13 (1.83%) Organisational Skills
7 13 (1.83%) Public Sector
7 13 (1.83%) Retail
8 11 (1.55%) Influencing Skills
9 9 (1.27%) Documentation Skills
10 6 (0.84%) Advertising
10 6 (0.84%) Multimedia
11 5 (0.70%) Banking
11 5 (0.70%) Games
12 4 (0.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (0.56%) Manufacturing
12 4 (0.56%) Music Industry
12 4 (0.56%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.42%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 156 (21.94%) Developer
2 134 (18.85%) Analyst
3 99 (13.92%) IT Support
4 98 (13.78%) Junior
5 93 (13.08%) Junior Analyst
6 85 (11.95%) .NET Developer
7 71 (9.99%) Senior
8 58 (8.16%) IT Engineer
9 54 (7.59%) Support Engineer
10 50 (7.03%) Security Analyst
11 48 (6.75%) Ethical Hacker
12 46 (6.47%) Data Analyst
13 44 (6.19%) Cybersecurity Analyst
13 44 (6.19%) IT Support Engineer
13 44 (6.19%) Junior Data Analyst
13 44 (6.19%) Junior Security Analyst
14 34 (4.78%) Azure Engineer
14 34 (4.78%) Graduate
14 34 (4.78%) Lead
15 31 (4.36%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 126 (17.72%) .NET
2 103 (14.49%) .NET Core
3 81 (11.39%) ASP.NET
4 80 (11.25%) ASP.NET Core
5 75 (10.55%) CSS
6 67 (9.42%) HTML
7 51 (7.17%) RESTful
8 38 (5.34%) React
9 35 (4.92%) Entity Framework
10 32 (4.50%) ML.NET
11 31 (4.36%) Node.js
12 29 (4.08%) Blazor
13 23 (3.23%) AngularJS
14 22 (3.09%) HTML5 Canvas
14 22 (3.09%) JSON
15 21 (2.95%) ASP.NET Web API
15 21 (2.95%) Microsoft Graph
15 21 (2.95%) Vue
16 19 (2.67%) SPFx
17 17 (2.39%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 48 (6.75%) Cyberattack
2 38 (5.34%) Driving Licence
3 34 (4.78%) Onboarding
4 32 (4.50%) Cloud Native
5 18 (2.53%) Management Information System
6 17 (2.39%) Self-Motivation
7 11 (1.55%) Security Posture
8 10 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
8 10 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
9 9 (1.27%) Hybrid Cloud
10 8 (1.13%) Cyber Threat
11 7 (0.98%) Clustering
11 7 (0.98%) Digital TV
11 7 (0.98%) iPhone
12 6 (0.84%) Data Structures
12 6 (0.84%) Legacy Code
12 6 (0.84%) Product Ownership
12 6 (0.84%) Public Cloud
13 5 (0.70%) BBC
13 5 (0.70%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 146 (20.53%) Windows
2 87 (12.24%) Windows Server
3 17 (2.39%) Linux
4 14 (1.97%) Android
4 14 (1.97%) Windows Server 2019
5 12 (1.69%) Apple iOS
5 12 (1.69%) Mac OS
6 7 (0.98%) Windows 10
7 3 (0.42%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (0.28%) Unix
8 2 (0.28%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.14%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 172 (24.19%) Cybersecurity
2 161 (22.64%) AI
3 135 (18.99%) Agile
4 114 (16.03%) Mentoring
5 108 (15.19%) DevOps
6 98 (13.78%) Business Intelligence
7 89 (12.52%) Problem-Solving
8 85 (11.95%) Full-Stack Development
9 78 (10.97%) CI/CD
10 73 (10.27%) Continuous Improvement
11 65 (9.14%) Machine Learning
12 48 (6.75%) Ethical Hacking
12 48 (6.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 45 (6.33%) Computer Science
14 43 (6.05%) Roadmaps
15 42 (5.91%) ITIL
16 40 (5.63%) User Experience
17 38 (5.34%) Customer Service
17 38 (5.34%) Service Delivery
18 36 (5.06%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 229 (32.21%) SQL
2 158 (22.22%) C#
3 122 (17.16%) Python
4 69 (9.70%) JavaScript
5 64 (9.00%) PowerShell
6 44 (6.19%) TypeScript
7 25 (3.52%) PHP
8 15 (2.11%) Java
9 12 (1.69%) C++
10 9 (1.27%) Bicep
10 9 (1.27%) T-SQL
11 5 (0.70%) R
12 4 (0.56%) Bash
13 3 (0.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 3 (0.42%) Ruby
13 3 (0.42%) Rust
14 2 (0.28%) Go
14 2 (0.28%) Scala
15 1 (0.14%) VB
Qualifications
1 215 (30.24%) Azure Certification
2 78 (10.97%) Degree
3 52 (7.31%) CompTIA Security+
4 48 (6.75%) CEH
5 45 (6.33%) CompTIA CySA+
6 38 (5.34%) Cisco Certification
7 35 (4.92%) Microsoft Certification
8 33 (4.64%) CCNA
9 32 (4.50%) Computer Science Degree
10 27 (3.80%) Network+ Certification
11 16 (2.25%) Security Cleared
12 11 (1.55%) SC Cleared
13 9 (1.27%) DBS Check
14 7 (0.98%) AWS Certification
14 7 (0.98%) DV Cleared
15 6 (0.84%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 6 (0.84%) CISSP
16 5 (0.70%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 5 (0.70%) CCNP
17 3 (0.42%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (4.36%) QA
2 27 (3.80%) SLA
3 24 (3.38%) GDPR
4 17 (2.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 15 (2.11%) Data Quality
6 13 (1.83%) NIST
7 9 (1.27%) Accessibility
7 9 (1.27%) GRC
8 8 (1.13%) Cyber Essentials
9 7 (0.98%) NCSC
10 6 (0.84%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 6 (0.84%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 5 (0.70%) PCI DSS
12 4 (0.56%) JSP 440
12 4 (0.56%) NIST 800
12 4 (0.56%) PMO
13 3 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 2 (0.28%) SOC 2
15 1 (0.14%) IFRS
15 1 (0.14%) ISO 31000
System Software
1 138 (19.41%) Active Directory
2 39 (5.49%) Hyper-V
3 32 (4.50%) Docker
4 31 (4.36%) VMware Infrastructure
5 15 (2.11%) Virtual Desktop
6 9 (1.27%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.56%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 4 (0.56%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.28%) vSphere
9 1 (0.14%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 66 (9.28%) Microsoft Intune
2 39 (5.49%) Kubernetes
3 26 (3.66%) Terraform
4 7 (0.98%) Ansible
5 4 (0.56%) SCCM
6 3 (0.42%) Proxmox
6 3 (0.42%) ZABBIX
7 2 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.14%) Grafana
8 1 (0.14%) Nessus
8 1 (0.14%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.14%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 504 (70.89%) Microsoft
2 116 (16.32%) ForeScout
3 47 (6.61%) Cisco
4 36 (5.06%) VMware
5 29 (4.08%) Apple
6 24 (3.38%) Google
7 19 (2.67%) Adobe
8 15 (2.11%) Meraki
9 13 (1.83%) Databricks
10 12 (1.69%) Facebook
10 12 (1.69%) Veeam
11 9 (1.27%) ServiceNow
12 7 (0.98%) Fortinet
12 7 (0.98%) Sophos
13 6 (0.84%) Cloudera
13 6 (0.84%) Dell
13 6 (0.84%) Epicor
13 6 (0.84%) SolarWinds
13 6 (0.84%) SonicWALL
13 6 (0.84%) Ubiquiti